Bernardine Evaristo

The Emperor's Babe

A Roman-era enslaved woman navigates forbidden love, ambition, and survival in Londinium

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Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo

British novelist and poet who became the first Black woman to win the Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other in 2019. Her formally inventive fiction celebrates the lives and histories of Black and mixed-race British women. She is a central figure in Black British literature.

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